Clothespin



J. B. MARSHALL.

CLOTHESPIN.

APPLICATION FILED JULYI4 I921. 1,417,850. at nted May 30, 1922.

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INVENTOR Joseph B. Marshall ,5. fi ddnfi ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH B. MARSHALL, 0F WESTPGRT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO SHILEPSKY AND iMARSHALL, OF WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT, A COPARTNERSHIP GONSISTING NATHAN SI-IILEPSKY AND JOSEPH B, MARSHALL.

CLOTHESPIN.

Application filed July 14:, 1921.

To .LZZ w ham it may concern:

Be it known that Josnri-r B. MARSHALL, a citizen of the United States, and resident of lVestport, in the county of Fair-field and State of Connecticut, has invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothespins, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in clothes pins, and has more particular reference to metallic clothes pins.

The object of the invention is to provide a clothes pin of the present character which :an be easily and economically manufactured from a single length of resilient wire, and will be durablefor a long period of time to efficiently and reliably perform its intended function.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention comprises the construction, arrangement and combination of partsas now to be fully described and as hereinafter to be specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification,

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a clothes pin made in accordance with the principles of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof;

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation thereof;

Fig. 1 is a top plan view thereof; and

l 5 is a perspective view on a reduced scale of a modified form of clothes pin shown applied to a garment suspended on a clothes line.

The novel clothes pin is produced from a single length of wire by bending and essentially comprises resilient, spaced apart jaws, denoted by 10 and 11, respectively, connected at their upper ends in the improved manner now to be set forth, and each consisting of a pair of substantially parallel, vertically disposed arms, the arms constituting the jaw 10 being designated by 12 and 13, respectively, and the arms constituting the jaw 11 being designated by 1 1 and 15, re spectively.

The arm 12 may be a continuation of the ring 16, positioned at the top of the clothes pin as in Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive, or it may constitute one end portion of the length of wire, as in Fig. 5, this difference in construction, in fact, marking the only difference between the two forms of the invention Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 30, 1922.

Serial No. 484,675.

as disclosed. The arm 13 is a continuation of the arm 12, as is obvious, and said arm 13 merges into the arm 1% of the jaw 11, which arm let terminates in the arm 15 in the same manner that the arm 12 terminates in the arm 13. The upper end of the arm 15 preferably terminates slightly below the upper end of the arm 12, as shown, and merges into a loop 17 which closely encircles the upper end of the arm 12 and the material of the bend, denoted by 18, between the arm 13 of the aw 10 and the arm 1 1 of the jaw 11, the free end. of the loop 17 desirably terminating closely adjacent the upper end of the arm 15. The free end of the ring 16, when said ring is utilized, may terminate contiguous with or closely adj acent to the upper end of the arm 12.

The lower portions of the jaws are flared outwardly as at 19, and said jaws are preferably bowed as at 20 in usual manner, to facilitate the placing of the device on a garment A suspended from a line B. See Fig. 5.

It will be seen that while the ring 16 may be utilized, as for convenience in handling or for the purpose of stringing the clothes pins, it forms no essential part of the device, the resilient connection betweenv the jaws being constituted by the bend 18 between the arms 13 and 1 1, and the loop 17 serving the purpose of reinforcing the bend 18 and the additional purpose of insuring the fixed relation of the upper ends of all of the arms. With the simple construction of pin as dis closed and fully described, no coils of wire, as heretofore utilized, are required.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A clothes pin consisting of a single length of wire bent to provide jaws, each of said jaws comprising a pair of arms having connection at their lower ends, one of said jaws having an arm constituting an end portion of said length of wire and an arm connecting with one of the arms of the other jaw, there being a bend between said connecting arms, and said other jaw having an arm terminating in a loop, said loop freely encircling said bend and theupper end of that arm constituting the end portion of said length of wire.

2. A clothes pin consisting of a length of wire bent to provide jaws, each of said aws comprising a pair of arms having connection at their lower ends, one of said jaws.

having an arm carrying a ring located at the top 01: said clothes pin and an arm connecting with one of the arms of the other jaw, there being a bend between said connecting arms, and said other j aw having an arm carrying said ring. 

